Verizon says its service is back after a 10-hour outage Verizon customers’ issues appeared to be concentrated in the eastern United States. Ian Carlos Campbell UpdatedThu, January 15, 2026 Smith Collection/Gado via Getty Images Verizon’s network is experiencing technical issues that are impacting calls and wireless data. Verizon customers on X have reported seeing … Continue reading Verizon outage: Voice and data services down for many customers
Amazon’s AWS outage on October 20 knocked services like Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, Venmo and more offline for hours A massive outage highlights why relying on a few companies to power much of the internet is far from ideal. Kris Holt UpdatedTue, October 21, 2025 SOPA Images via Getty Images It felt like half of the … Continue reading Amazon’s AWS outage knocked services like Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, Venmo and more offline
August 12, 2024 Tech failures like the Crowdstrike outage are the new normal. Here’s how leaders can prep for them PagerDuty CEO Jennifer Tejada says companies can’t stop incidents from happening, but they can reduce the risks. BY Stephanie Mehta Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto … Continue reading Tech failures like the Crowdstrike outage are the new normal. Here’s how leaders can prep for them
August 03, 2024 How the real Olivia Pope would have handled the CrowdStrike outage Crisis manager Judy Smith, the inspiration for the TV show ‘Scandal,’ unpacks what the company got right and where it dropped the ball. BY Shalene Gupta Judy Smith is a crisis manager whose career was the inspiration for the TV show Scandal—specifically … Continue reading How the real Olivia Pope would have handled the CrowdStrike outage
July 24, 2024 CrowdStrike offers $10 Uber Eats gift cards as an apology for the outage Some partners say they can’t even redeem the offer. BY Jessica Bursztynsky CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity company behind last week’s massive computer crash, offered $10 Uber Eats gift cards to its affected partners and teammates for their troubles. But Uber flagged … Continue reading CrowdStrike offers $10 Uber Eats gift cards as an apology for the outage
July 23, 2024 How to get compensated by Delta for flights grounded by the CrowdStrike outage Everything you need to know about reimbursements, refunds, vouchers, and more—thanks in part to a Delta employee’s intel on Reddit. BY Alex Pasternack Among the many thoughts that drifted through my mind over the course of four long hours … Continue reading How to get compensated by Delta for flights grounded by the CrowdStrike outage
Outage caused by CrowdStrike’s disastrous update affected 8.5 million devices The update left airlines, banks and major companies facing the blue screen of death. cheyenne macdonald Sat, Jul 20, 2024 REUTERS / Reuters The global outage caused by a faulty update from cybersecurity provider CrowdStrike on Friday affected some 8.5 million Windows devices, … Continue reading Outage caused by CrowdStrike’s disastrous update affected 8.5 million devices
What the company is calling a “glitch” kept more than 500,000 users across the world from accessing the tech giant’s platforms. Constantine von Hoffman on March 5, 2024 Meta’s online properties were down for about two hours Tuesday, preventing more than half a million Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, WhatsApp and Threads users from using their accounts, … Continue reading Meta suffers major outage at Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads
A permission change with Amazon Web Service prevented customers from accessing most Salesforce services for several hours. Constantine von Hoffman on September 20, 2023 There was a huge outage of Salesforce services today following an internal permission change. As a result, customers were not able to access services for several hours. “This is about … Continue reading Salesforce says an internal action caused service outage
T-Mobile data breach compromised 37 million customers’ data Mariella Moon @mariella_moon T-Mobile has admitted that hackers were able to steal the information of around 37 million postpaid and prepaid customers in another major data breach. The carrier said in a regulatory filing that it discovered the issue on January 5th, but that it believes the … Continue reading T-Mobile outage affected thousands of users across the US
